>>38389320Bulbapedia can be useful but I dont buy this medusa shit at all. The name meduza was given by the idiots translators not the game developers and there is really nothing about it that suggests a medusa inspiration.
If you look at the index numbers Tangela appears fairly early in development, before types were even a thing, I think the concept is just that of a monster that you dont really see because its obscured by its surroundings.
>>38389383in the original sprites they arent shoes at all just part of the black obfuscated body
